Bell is a good prospect, but the running back position is so much about preference and identifying a skill set fitting your offense's specific needs. For the Packers they don't necessarily need that bell cow type, but rather a guy who's good in pass protection and can maximize his 15 or so carries with home run potential. A player like Johnathan Franklin fits the Packers better than a player like Bell.

Only thing I see is maybe slow to get up to top speed, not sure where I am getting people saying he is not agile though. He's hurdled numerous people at probably over 240lbs and his spin move is sick. It would be different if he just ran and plowed into everyone with no moves at all.

I also tend to think that his speed was pretty impressive at that size, I don't think he's ever going to be a guy breaking off 60 yard runs consistently but he seems plenty fast enough to succeed. I would hope he gets his weight around 230 and no higher, not 245 range.

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Good prospect but where is the toughness, I watched pretty well all his games and he doesn't use his 240lbs the way you would expect. He doesn't punish defenders but takes the easy route. I really don't think he can get away with it at the next level.

I agree. Bell is good, but he is getting a little too much hype. He isn't nearly as physical a runner as Eddie Lacy and isn't as quick to the hole, to compare him to the other top power back in the draft. I must say, maybe I need to watch more Michigan State, but I don't really see the receiving skills people are mentioning. To me, Bell looks like a big guy who is light on his feet, but isn't really explosive or consistently physical. A lot like Jacobs in his running style.

To me, Bell looks like a big guy who is light on his feet, but isn't really explosive or consistently physical.

I would say the exact same thing about Lacy. I'm not sure when I ever saw Lacy look really explosive or consistently physical either. Explosive was never a word I used to describe him and more so then punish the defender he was usually making him miss.

Not to say they are in the same range as prospects, but that's the definition I'd probably use for Lacy also so I don't know why that would be a negative here.

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I would say the exact same thing about Lacy. I'm not sure when I ever saw Lacy look really explosive or consistently physical either. Explosive was never a word I used to describe him and more so then punish the defender he was usually making him miss.

Not to say they are in the same range as prospects, but that's the definition I'd probably use for Lacy also so I don't know why that would be a negative here.

Explosive is one thing, but i do think you can point out a pretty good consistency of Lacy running physical.

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